442 Glossary. 



Black Bee— Common or German race of bees, p. 41. 



Bottom Board— Floor of hive, pp. 179, 181, 190. 



Box Hive— Plain box in which bees are kept, p. 173. 



Box Honey— Comb honey stored in boxes. 



Brain — Nerve mass in head of insects, pp. 61, 66. 



Breed— Race ; Italian breed, p. 41. __ , . , , , , 



Breeding In— Close breeding, as when a queen is fecundated by one of her own 



drones. 

 Bridal Trip— Flight of queen to meet drone, p. 92. 

 Brimstone— Sulphur, p. 326. 



Brimstone— Fumigation with sulphur fume.-;, p. 326. 

 Broad Frame— Wide frame for holding sections, p. 207. 

 Brood— Immature bees, or bees yet in the cell, p. 80. 

 Brood Comb— Comb used for breeding, p. 154. 

 Brood Nest— Space in hive used for breeding. 

 Brood Rearing- Raising of brood. 



Brown Bee — ^A supposed variety of the common black bee, p, 4l* 

 Bumble Bee— Our large wild bee or humble bee, p. 31. 

 Candied Honey— Honey crystallized or granulated, p. 149. 

 Cap — Box to shut over top of a hive. 

 Cap— To seal or close a cell. 

 Capped Brood — ^Brood sealed. 

 Capped Honey— Honey sealed. 



Cappings or Caps— Thin wax sheets cut off in extracting. 

 Card— Frame o£ comb. Rare. 

 Carniolans— Same as Krainer. Race of black bees from Krain, Austria, pp. 38, 46, 



265. 

 Casts— After swarms. Rare. 

 Caterpillar—- I^arva of butterfly or moth. 



Caucasian Bee— Variety of black bee, from Caucasian mountains, pp. 38, 46. 

 Cell — Opening in comb for brood, honey or bee-bread, p. 152. 

 Chaff-hrve — A double walled hive with space filled with chaff, p. 180. 

 Chyle— Digested food ; probable food of larva, p. 116. 

 Chyme— Partially digested food, p. 116. 

 Chrysalid or Chrysalis— Pupa of butterflies and moths. Sometimes applied to other 



pupze. 

 Clamp— Hives placed close together and covered, p. 396. 

 Cleansing Flight— Removing bees from cellar that they may fly, p. 394. 

 Closed End or Top Frames— Where end bars of frames and ends of top bars are 



close fitting, p. 197. 

 Cluster — Bees in compact mass, p. 142. 

 Clypeus — Portion of head of insects below the eyesjip. 51. 



Cocoon — Case, often containing silk fibers, which surrounds a pupa, pp. 80, 90, 136. 

 Collateral Sy<;tem — Side storing. English. 

 Colony — The bees of one hive. 



Comb— The fabric which holds the brood and honey, p. 152. 

 Comb Basket — ^I'he frame of an extractor which holds the comb, p, 278. 

 Comb Carrier — Box for carrying combs ; most used in extracting, p. 283. 

 Comb Foundation— Thin sheets of impressed wax, like the foundation of real comb, 



p. 305. 

 Comb Foundation Machine — Machine for making comb foundation, p. 304. 

 Comb Guide — Strip of wood, comb or foundation on the bottom of top bar of firame, 



to induce bees to build combs in proper place, pp. 193, 314. 

 Comb Holder — Device for holding combs, p. 279. 

 Comb Honey— Honey in comb, p. 287. 

 Compound Eyes— Large eyes of insects ; so called as they consist of many rimple 



eyes, p. 59. 

 Corbicula — Pollen basket on hind leg of worker bee, p. 126. 

 Cover — Lid of hive, or cover of brood frames, pp. 18S, 187, 198. 

 Coxa — First part or joint of the insect's leg, p, 63. 



Crate— Box for sections on the hive, or for snipping comb honey, pp. 210, 821. 

 Cushion — Quilt or bag for covering bees. 



Cyprian Bees — A yellow race from the Isle of Cyprus, p. 38, 265. 

 Dalmatian Bees— A variety of black bees from Dalmatia, the Southwestern Province 



of Austria, p. 38. 

 Decoy Hive— Hive set to catch absconding swarms. 



